It’s time for another  Tag You’re It! Challenge. Can’t believe we are up to number 6 already!

Here is this week’s lovely inspiration tag – made by Karin Åkesdotter.

I just HAD to include a butterfly as you know me, I love my butterflies. To add some sparkle, I created a glittery butterfly using some double sided adhesive and glitter.

The tag was from my scrap pile, but it was made by smooshing distress inks onto an acrylic block and then pressing it onto some water colour paper. I love this technique!

For more details on the challenge and the guidelines, go here.

Hope you can find some time to play along. To link up your creations head to the Tag You’re It! Challenge blog.

Thanks for stopping by,

Hello. I’m up again at the Muse Card Club.

For my card, I wanted to incorporate two of my crafting ‘loves’, and they are stamping and die cutting. The background was stamped using the Mama Elephant Modern Borders stamp set, in a gorgeous array of summery colours 🙂 (For those of us in the Southern Hemisphere, it won’t be long until those long summer days will be with us again). The butterfly is a My Favorite Things die.

There are actually 3 vellum butterflies stacked on top of each other to add some interest and dimension.

Here are some of the guidelines if you are unfamiliar with how Muse works.

• Use the Muse card as inspiration, explain your interpretation and link back to Muse.
• Provide supportive comments to at least 3 of your fellow member’s submissions.
• Vote for 3 of your fellow member’s submissions that you find inspiring, once voting opens.

For the full challenge guidelines go here.

Hope you can find some time to play along at Muse this week,

Today my blogging buddy Therese Calvird and I have a little treat for you. When we met in person over a year ago, we decided that we should have a mini challenge between us. It has taken a little while to get off the ground, but better late than never right?

For today’s challenge we are using this gorgeous cake as our inspiration.

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I loved the airy look of the butterflies and the overall colour scheme. Here is what I came up with.

I white heat embossed the Hero Arts Antique Engraving’s butterfly onto vellum and cut it out. The leaves are also die cut from vellum to replicate that airy look on the cake. In order to create some interest in the background, I blended in some distress inks and then using a Studio Calico Chevron mask, I lightly spritzed it with some water. The water reacts with the distress ink and created a watermark look.

Well I am off to Therese’s blog – Lostinpaper, to she what gorgeous creation she has made. How about you hop on over as well?

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Today I am taking part in wishing Anita, from My Papercraft World, a very happy belated birthday. She provides the blogging world with many gorgeous creations and now it is our turn to shower her with some love. Happy belated Birthday Anita 🙂

Thanks to Bev and Darnell for organising this birthday event. Please head to Darnell’s blog where the inlinkz button is, if you want to join in with the party.

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Happy New Year! We are home from our mammoth Christmas holiday/adventure, visiting so many family and friends (we clocked about 3500kms all up). It was lovely seeing everyone but boy does it feel good to be home. There is no place like home 🙂

This week at AnnaBelle Stamps it is time for this month’s challenge, which is a sketch.

We are having the most beautiful summer weather here on the South Coast. It was a cool and overcast 24 degrees today, unlike the majority of NSW! At my parent’s farm in North West NSW, it was a sweltering 44 degrees (that’s 111.2 degrees Fahrenheit!) Boy am I glad for our cool, coastal sea breezes. My card today reflects the warm colours of summer.

Be sure to check out the rest of the Belles’ projects – their links are on my side bar.

Don’t forget that Andrea is having a huge AnnaBelle Stamps sale where you can save 30% on ALL stamps!

Until next time,

About our challenges:

• We post our challenges the first Friday of each month at 8:00pm AEST (AEDT during Daylight Savings).
• Each challenge runs until 24 hours prior to the next challenge.
• All entries MUST include AnnaBelle Stamps as the main focal image, this can include our digi range which can be found here.
• One random winner will be the lucky recipient of a $20.00 AnnaBelle Stamps Discount Coupon! This opens the challenge up for everyone to play along with and to have a chance at the prize.
• We will feature our Top 3 picks and announce the winner prior to the next challenge going live.

How To Play Along:

• Copy and save our challenge banner and include it and a link back to the ABS blog in your post.
• For those without a blog you can still play along! Simply upload your card to a image sharing site like Flickr and include a link to the challenge in your description.
• Please link directly to your entry not just to your blog.
• Please don’t link to postings made prior to the date of our current challenge. All projects submitted must be new.
• You may enter any of our challenges several times as long as each submission is with a new creation.
• Only AnnaBelle images can be used as the main image.

Hello. It’s time for another sketch challenge at AnnaBelle Stamps. We have quite a simple sketch this month – so interpret it any way you like.

To create the rainbow chevron pattern on the tag, I used an arrow stamp from the Splat Attack stamp set. The background cross-hatch stamping on the card is BBD#5 – I just stamped it in both directions. I think I use this stamp somewhere most weeks as I love it! Tone on tone stamping rocks – in my opinion 🙂 The sentiment comes from BBD#8.

Be sure to check out the rest of the Belles’ projects – their links are on my side bar.

Thanks for stopping by,

About our challenges:

• We post our challenges the first Friday of each month at 8:00pm AEST (AEDT during Daylight Savings).
• Each challenge runs until 24 hours prior to the next challenge.
• All entries MUST include AnnaBelle Stamps as the main focal image, this can include our digi range which can be found here.
• One random winner will be the lucky recipient of a $20.00 AnnaBelle Stamps Discount Coupon! This opens the challenge up for everyone to play along with and to have a chance at the prize.
• We will feature our Top 3 picks and announce the winner prior to the next challenge going live.

How To Play Along:

• Copy and save our challenge banner and include it and a link back to the ABS blog in your post.
• For those without a blog you can still play along! Simply upload your card to a image sharing site like Flickr and include a link to the challenge in your description.
• Please link directly to your entry not just to your blog.
• Please don’t link to postings made prior to the date of our current challenge. All projects submitted must be new.
• You may enter any of our challenges several times as long as each submission is with a new creation.
• Only AnnaBelle images can be used as the main image.